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Download full textHanoon Umarlebbe, Jameela; Binti Mat Said, Seriaznita – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2021
The first part of this paper discusses the rationale for universal grammar (UG) theory to explain first language acquisition. It also illustrates the issues of language acquisition Chomsky argued which could not be supported by behaviourist theories and shows how Chomsky proposed a solution to this problem through his theoretical model of…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Universals, Native Language, Language Acquisition
Direct linkChaehyun Lee – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2025
Employing transnationalism and transnational literacies as theoretical perspectives, this study explores how two focal students from Asian immigrant families construct their transnational and transcultural identities by reflecting on their dynamic border-crossing experiences. The students' creation of artifacts (illustrating self-portraits and…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Individual Development, Immigrants, Global Approach
Aiping Zhao; Xuening Zhang; Ying Guo; Megan Schneider Dinnesen; Shuyan Sun; Yunqing Xu – Journal of Research in Reading, 2025
Background: Second language (L2) reading is a complex process in which two languages constantly interact. L1 reading and L2 proficiency are two well-acknowledged factors contributing to L2 reading comprehension. Other factors, such as strategy use and anxiety, might also predict L2 reading comprehension, but their roles have not been examined in…
Descriptors: High School Students, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Reading Skills
Alba Arias Álvarez – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
Migrant communities settle and appropriate spaces in their new home through deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation processes, which involve the reconceptualisation of the language and symbols of the homeland and those spoken and used in the diaspora. The public sphere is one of the most distinguishable places where this contextual relation…
Descriptors: Signs, Language Planning, Spanish, Semiotics
Xiuhong Tong; Liyan Yu; S. Hélène Deacon – Review of Educational Research, 2025
Theories of reading comprehension have widely predicted a role for syntactic skills, or the ability to understand and manipulate the structure of a sentence. Yet, these theories are based primarily on English, leaving open the question of whether this remains true across typologically different languages such as English versus Chinese. There are…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Reading Comprehension, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education
Kuperman, Victor; Siegelman, Noam; Schroeder, Sascha; Acartürk, Cengiz; Alexeeva, Svetlana; Amenta, Simona; Bertram, Raymond; Bonandrini, Rolando; Brysbaert, Marc; Chernova, Daria; Da Fonseca, Sara Maria; Dirix, Nicolas; Duyck, Wouter; Fella, Argyro; Frost, Ram; Gattei, Carolina A.; Kalaitzi, Areti; Lõo, Kaidi; Marelli, Marco; Nisbet, Kelly; Papadopoulos, Timothy C.; Protopapas, Athanassios; Savo, Satu; Shalom, Diego E.; Slioussar, Natalia; Stein, Roni; Sui, Longjiao; Taboh, Analí; Tønnesen, Veronica; Usal, Kerem Alp – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
Research into second language (L2) reading is an exponentially growing field. Yet, it still has a relatively short supply of comparable, ecologically valid data from readers representing a variety of first languages (L1). This article addresses this need by presenting a new data resource called "MECO L2" (Multilingual Eye Movements…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Eye Movements, Reading Skills, College Students
Staples, Shelley; Gray, Bethany; Biber, Douglas; Egbert, Jesse – Applied Linguistics, 2023
Grammatical complexity has been established as a key indicator of language and writing development (Ortega 2003; Bulté and Housen, 2014; Crossley and McNamara 2014). The present study uses the Register-Functional approach to complexity (Biber et al. 2022) to compare the development of L1 English and L2 English writers across year of study and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Writing Skills, Grammar
Singh, Leher; Cheng, Qiqi; Yeung, Wei-Jun Jean – Developmental Science, 2023
Infants undergo fundamental shifts in perception that are reported to be critical for language acquisition. In particular, infants' perception of native and non-native sounds begins to align with the properties of their native sound system. Thus far, empirical evidence for this transition--perceptual narrowing--has drawn from socio-economically…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Infants, Native Language, Auditory Discrimination
Peer reviewedRaquel G. Alhama; Ruthe Foushee; Dan Byrne; Allyson Ettinger; Susan Goldin-Meadow; Afra Alishahi – Grantee Submission, 2023
Having heard "a pimwit", English-speakers assume that "the pimwit" is also possible. This type of productivity is attributed to syntactic categories such as NOUN and DETERMINER, but the key question is "how" do humans become endowed with these categories in the first place. We propose a novel approach that combines…
Descriptors: English, Nouns, Child Language, Native Language
Ruth Kircher; Ethan Kutlu – Applied Linguistics, 2023
Little is known about how monolingual ideologies and their effects manifest in online contexts as compared to offline contexts. We conducted a corpus-assisted discourse study to investigate this, with a focus on Twitter representations of Spanish as a heritage language in the USA. We analysed two corpora (one English and one Spanish--over 30…
Descriptors: Social Media, Native Language, Spanish, English
Khair Abbas, Randa – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2023
Purpose: Conferences, while central to academic endeavors, are an understudied research site. This purpose of this study is to describe the experience of an Arab Israeli teachers' college in hosting a large international academic conference on multiculturalism, conducted entirely in English. Most of the academic staff and all of the students are…
Descriptors: Arabs, Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Colleges
Fernández-Dobao, Ana – Modern Language Journal, 2023
Drawing on positioning theory and Vygotsky's sociocultural theory of mind, this study analyzes the discursive processes through which expert and novice positions are negotiated in heritage-second language (HL-L2) learner interaction. It examines how positioning practices shape collaboration between HL and L2 learners, determining what types of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Native Language, Spanish, Collaborative Writing
Ying Jiang; Xiaosong Gai; Xue Han; Ying Cui – Irish Educational Studies, 2023
Phonics instruction, originating in English-speaking countries, has gained considerable momentum in China, both within and beyond formal classroom settings. Despite its popularity, certain limiting factors arise when implementing phonics instruction for native Chinese speakers. These factors include the lack of prior exposure to lexical…
Descriptors: Phonics, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Chinese
Taha, Haitham; Taha, Hanada; Shaheen, Huda – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2023
The current study examined the effect of the linguistic status of the verbal previewing strategy on the outcomes of reading comprehension tasks among second (N = 25, age 7.08 ± 0.3), and sixth-grade students (N = 25, age 11.75 ± 0.25), with typical reading development. The texts for each group were carefully matched and were divided into three…
Descriptors: Arabic, Reading Comprehension, Grade 2, Grade 6
Gudmestad, Aarnes; Edmonds, Amanda – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
In the current study, we examined the role of first-language (L1) influence on the additional-language development of grammatical gender marking in Spanish. The participants were L1 speakers of English or French (N = 215), who were learning Spanish and who were at three instructional levels. The data came from their use of gender marking in…
Descriptors: Spanish, Native Language, English, French
